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Ivan and Bobbie Finkle of Los Angeles were rafting down Costa Rica’s Peñas Blancas River in March when their guide veered toward land and ran ashore into a forest.
“Seconds later he emerged holding the smallest frog I’ve ever seen,” says Ivan, who took this photo. “We were told it was a poison dart frog” — harmless to handlers with no cuts on their hands. The guide returned the frog and, Ivan says, “thoroughly washed his hands.”
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